How involved are you in your child's learning

I am moderately involved. I encourage my kids to do their best in school, I enforce homework times etc. I go to parent/teacher conferences.. this year I could not make it to the oldest's conference so I just e-mailed his teachers and asked for an update on his performance which they were happy to do since they already got so many parents on the conference day. That is probably the extent of it. I do not visit the school often just to be there like some parents.. not that there's anything wrong with that. For me, my kids are all smart and at least the younger ones apply themselves and get really good grades. The oldest usually needs a push to get good grades and even still he doesn't do as well as he can.. but he's older and will be in high school next year. He knows the concequences of getting poor grades, so aside from the occasional lecture to remind him of the importance of his grades, I basically leave it up to him. He is smart he just doesn't apply himself and there's nothing more I can do to make him try harder. I've met most of my kid's teachers (not the older ones teachers this year as I said) and I like the teachers and the curriculum. At the moment there's nothing I'd change about our current school district.. except for some of the political issues we've had in the school board, but that really doesn't trickle down to my kids so it doesn't bother me at all.

I am Sri Lankan. Living in Germany. First I found most of the teaching methods good in Germany. Now my daughter is in her 5th class. She face some difficulties in maths and dictation. so I select some old Sri Lankan methods to help her. 1. She must by heart the multiple table. Just thinking and doing the sums consumes time. 2. she must by heart the difficult words' spellings. I behave as a teacher at home for one hour daily. this is one of my article for small children. Some times this may be useful for any myloters.http://gomestic.com/family/when-to-teach-my-child/

I have always been and will continue to always be very involved in my children's education. My daughter is in second grade now and I started teaching her when she was in the preschool years at home and then since she has been in the public school system, I volunteer in her classroom as much as possible. Now, my son is only four years old and I've been working with him at home since August of this year because I think that the early years are the most important years for education of your children.

I work at night so it is really hard to be always monitoring her learning everyday. I would like to do so, but because I require more sleep I tend to be more impatient and I don't want that. I want her learning moments to be as pleasant as it can be that is why I try not to really put my attention into it. She is just preschooler and I don't really want to be so pushy. I do remember I was in the point where I unintentionally hit her because of teaching her. But it actually gained a good response because she learned hoe to write her very long name. Until, one day I decided to just let it go. I said o myself she is on the stage where she is more absorbent and I just don't have to be hasty about it. You don't push a child to learn at once. She is not a genius and i don't wish her to be. I just want her to learn to read and write as early as possible. But amazingly... I realized a few weeks ago that my daughter now knows how to read. Not flawless but was so amazed because I really thought it is going to be difficult for her. I'd like to stimulate her more so I need more time on that too.. I want to be her guide and I want to give her all the moral support. Love you WUDI....! thats my daughter's name!

I think it is very important to be involved in your child's learning. Truly good and talented teachers are few and far between (there can only be a few at the top, after all) and it is important to monitor things. If your straight A child suddenly starts bringing home bad marks and won't talk about it, something is going on. It could be school-related (teacher, bullying, etc) and if you don't pay attention, you will miss a chance to help your child. The public school system here is terrible and getting worse all the time. Bad teachers cannot be fired because of the unions, and the truly good teachers are limited in what they can do because the unions are always protecting the bad teachers! We will be home-schooling my daughter, most likely.

My child is only two. She is in at home day care 5 days a week. At home I work on colors, she can count to 5, she can say the numbers with me (repeating) up to ten. We are working on identifying and repeating letters, and she can find an L, the first letter of her nickname. We learn about animals too. As for my school district, i am kind of biased because I work in the schools. Overall we have a strong school district and there are only 3 teachers that I would not want my child to have because i think that they are not so great as teachers, none of those are in the building where I currently work, but have worked with them in the past. We do not have a very involved parental community. part of it is that the parents are working just to keep a roof over the kids heads. We do have a good before and after school program that is supported by YMCA, and keeps local teens employeed to help the students. It is a highly used program, with about 35% of my school population attending either before or after school. The Y works with the teachers to see what the students need to work on. I would like to see the parents more accountable, but it is hard to impose a punishment on the parents. unlike with the students, if they do not do their work they do it at recess or computer free time. Also, many of our parents work the farms, or in the factories, and they themselves are not highly educated. That makes a difference in their perception of the necessity of schooling, and quality schooling at that.